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well gave it as long as I could gents but no snow carp .... it was getting over 2ft deep on the track out so was time to make a start on the long journey home , would of stayed longer if i could of but needed to get back to the family. started slowly as we couldn't get up the hill out of the lake lol . But a bit of graft on the shovel & we were soon on our way. loved it

come on the carp

It was only an overnighter on Friday for me bud. Thank God lol.... Got some cracking sunrise shots....

Was going to say it's got to be worth a punt , but is that too cheesy ?

Good job you have Delkims and not Fox , you now have a chance of hearing that run with unfrozen Delks.

So there's only Chill. left out there , possibly lying snuggled up conserving his battery power ? .

That's my new screen saver.....

A45 is blocked up. No one is going anywhere I don't think. Hope he has enough supplies to last out another night if necessary. Only a short walk to Tesco though if needed. I got around the village this morning just about. Don't think I'll venture out further. Even if I added weight to the van it won't help. It's compacting so easy that it's just slippy everywhere.

We've had like 4 inches in an hour this morning. Roads are blocked. Including dual carriageways. Grit didn't have a chance. Ploughs are out but I'm stuck in the village I reckon.

It's as CM said. Can't really fish in there. Although the fish have been known to go in there when it's hot conditions so maybe they would when it's cold. Bait boat the ideal tool to get right in there as you could never cast inside it.

I'm presuming that you can make the shank as long or as short as you want, rather than the fixed length of the long shank hook, that's my guess anyhow......

For my big fish water, I have stopped using curved hooks, simply because I now always buy Solar 101's, in a size 6 or 4. Whichever is tied up in the rig bin is grabbed, no worry, winter or summer, no matter what bait size. You have a hair on your hook, that hair with any size hook means the hook will follow, and bigger hooks get better hookholds. It is only with pop-ups that I worry about matching hookbait size to the hook, my 20mm pop-ups will lift a size 4 101. After seeing fish eject even curved shank hooks tied with a knotless knot, I always use a line aligner, and in most cases, lengthening the hook shank length makes it harder to eject as well.